Re: programming: how to read a key?

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From: A Shelton
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00

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freemant@wr.com.au (Kent Tong) writes:

>I'd like to do the following programmtically:

>1. read in a key. It should accept say ctrl-A, Home, PgUp and etc.
>2. translate the key just read into a sequence of ascii characters.

>Can this be done? If so, how?

Not sure, but I suspect that what you need to do is put the terminal
into "raw" mode in which all characters should go directly to
you without buffering. 

Curses will do raw mode, POSIX also has a lot of functions for setting
terminal attributes including raw mode.

A Posix programming book is an EXCELLENT investment for working with
linux (IMO).

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